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Basil Beattie – interview: ‘passageway, corridor, ladder, staircase, tunnel: they are all words I use metaphorically with regard to other human experiences’

Rooted in abstract painting, Basil Beattie has for many years developed a uniquely powerful vocabulary of metaphoric images
Karolina Albricht – interview: ‘I was fascinated by how an image plays on different levels: an image that describes something, and an image that can transcend, perhaps, and provide access to the divine’

Albricht discusses her ambitious multi-part painting inspired by the Eastern European tradition of Icon painting
Lizzie Munn – interview: ‘Composing them on a wall, rather than being held in the plane like a painting, the layers are more actual than illusionistic’

A recent graduate of the Royal Academy Schools, Lizzie Munn works between printing, painting, sculpture and installation
Sammy Baloji

A well-sized survey distils the Congolese artist’s research-heavy practice, which draws connections between colonial and contemporary exploration
Anna Perach – interview: ‘I am always searching for that magic ingredient’

The artist talks about why she is more like Sergei Diaghilev than Taylor Swift, how she explains the incest and murder in Greek mythology to her son, and what led to her interest in tufted fabric
A Different Impressionism: International Printmaking from Manet to Whistler

With rarely shown works by famous artists, this exhibition demonstrates how new printing techniques extended impressionism beyond painting
Anya Gallaccio: Preserve

Ephemeral installations incorporate melting candles, felled trees, ageing fruit and decomposing flowers, but the showstopper is a mighty felled ash that dominates an entire gallery
Mike Kelley: Ghost and Spirit

A long overdue London retrospective of the pioneering, prescient American artist is not for the faint-hearted
Emma McNally: The Earth is Knot Flat

Installed by the artist over the month preceding its opening, this exhibition draws us into a manifold landscape of fragility and contingency
Sophia Al-Maria and Lydia Ourahmane: Grey Unpleasant Land

From chamberpots paired with Georgian silver to the reimagining of the story of Jacob and Esau, the two artists, working together for the first time, point up multiple dualities and inequalities